In our online archive you can find materials from more than 30 years of transmediale. Browse through 12,000 artworks, events, past participants and collaborators, and texts to explore our festival history.
XXXL explores the erotics, emotions, and political economies of size and scale in technology and defence industries.
The Meltionary is a growing experimental directory that investigates metaphors of melting in times of climate crisis and explores unstable states of matter.
Research Refusal workshop closely following the festival theme of for refusal, involved research groups and explored issues related to research infrastructures.
The 2022 workshop Rendering Research investigates how the rendering of research typically reinforces certain limitations of thought and action, and more specifically to what extent it is possible to exert control over ways of making things public.
Research Refusal workshop closely following the festival theme of for refusal, involved research groups and explored issues related to research infrastructures.
For the 10th anniversary of Vorspiel, transmediale and CTM Festival present an extended pre-festival programme in a mix of in-person and online formats.
transmediale seeks enthusiastic and attentive volunteers to facilitate the remote viewing of the festival exhibition.
We are excited to tell you more about the beginning of our year-long festival: transmediale 2021–22 opens with an exhibition and extended film programme. Read more.
In their project HyperBody, Qiang explores cultures within VR, fandom, and ACGN-communities, and experiments with transformative queer practices. Read more.
Apply now for the Vilém Flusser Residency 2021: the call on our submission platform is open until 30 November.
We are very happy to present two new transmediale residents for our Residency Programme in collaboration with Martin Roth Initiative (MRI): Bassem Saad and Natasha Tontey. Read more.
As part of an ongoing collaboration between transmediale festival, Aarhus University and various other institutions, we are seeking proposals by research groups to collaboratively research refusal and its effects on research practices and infrastructures. Turn in your submission now!
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What is the best way to assemble meaning out of the mass of information available today? How can data be converted reliably into something like truth, when simply identifying misinformation can seem a Herculean task? Truth has come to mean different things according to different beliefs and agendas—for some, truth is what is most readily available on the surface, while for others, truth lies deep beneath all the numbers and opinions and must be laboriously unearthed. In this essay, Faisal Devji calls this condition “the simultaneous desire for and disenchantment with a life on the surface.” Devji argues that if the surface could be converted from the supposed site of visibility into “an arena for play and illusion,” new and more powerful kinds of meaning might be produced. Esotericism and skepticism, he says, could reinstate mystery in meaning, rather than the fetishization of either visibility or revelation.